Professor Gómez-Dantés is a trained physician, and for the past 25 years his primary research efforts have centered on the transmission, surveillance, prevention, and control of vector diseases. Professor Gómez-Dantés was trained at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dengue Branch laboratories in Puerto Rico. He developed an evaluation of dengue control projects in Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has worked for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) as dengue consultant in several missions. He acted as coordinator for the design of the Malaria Elimination plan for the Mesoamerican region financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spanish government, the Carlos Slim Health Institute and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. He is currently coordinating the Ecohealth Initiative for vector-borne diseases control in Latin America supported by IDRC. He also works as a researcher and teacher at the National Institute of Public Health.

Professor Gómez-Dantés graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and from the Field Epidemiology Training Program at the CDC, with a master’s degree in Community Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He also earned a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.